Sentence examples for discerning English from inspiring English sources

There is no reason to conclude that Hooper was the founder of the cellar door fan club, either, but it is notable that he used a template according to which the story often has been told since: a person of note — brainy, foreign or both — declares the sounds of cellar door to be exceptional, to the surprise of native but less discerning English speakers.

A Stanford professor named Pam Grossman is now trying to articulate a similar body of knowledge for English teachers, discerning what kinds of questions to ask about literature and how to lead a group discussion about a book.

That was the word they were using at the agency; they had discerned that in English, people will use "going and going, like the Energizer bunny," but that nobody makes como el conejo Energizer references of a similar nature, which means that in Spanish the battery is still a battery, not an icon or a simile or a feeling about life.

Stanley Park, the city's equivalent of Central Park, had sprouted skyscrapers, and discerning viewers noted a dam in the background in English Bay, presumably holding back the higher water levels produced by global warming.

The esteemed intellectuals on the panel responsible for selecting the historical figures to be honoured with English Heritage's famous blue plaques are a discerning crowd.

The year is 1936, and through the static we discern that across the English Channel, world war is a-brewing.

Alien races are relatively regular encountees, but communication is initially impossible - each encounter might reveal a few more words of their language, until late in the game their concerns can be discerned in a pidgin English.

The TLS wrote, of Mediterranean Food: "More than a collection of recipes, this book is in effect a readable and discerning dissertation on Italian food and regional dishes, and their preparation in the English kitchen".

The Times Literary Supplement said, "More than a collection of recipes, this is book is in effect a readable and discerning dissertation on Italian food and regional dishes, and their preparation in the English kitchen.

The Times Literary Supplement wrote, "More than a collection of recipes, this book is in effect a readable and discerning dissertation on Italian food and regional dishes, and their preparation in the English kitchen".

The word "naysaying" plays felicitously on the sound of the English word "nay" and the cognate Indo-European root "ne," which gives Brann a convenient starting-point for discerning what various forms of naysaying have in common.